Devourer Appears Elsewhere

With the special ice crystal bullets, Su Ran killed several kin in front of the Earth Fire leader who couldn’t withstand the frost.

Since all the Earth Fire Lizards in the entire habitat were concentrated here, Su Ran didn’t have to worry about the saying “hit the young and the old will come.”

She just needed to get away from the Earth Fire Lizards.

She stared intently at the leading Earth Fire leader before her.

It didn’t seem to show any anger at the death of its kin, but instead directly chose to fuse with the flesh, blood, and magic essence of its dead kin.

As it fused with the magic essence of its other kin, a sense of familiar recognition rose in Su Ran’s heart again.

She forcefully suppressed the thoughts in her mind and gradually retreated along the path behind her, her eyes always fixed on the Earth Fire leader, which was still fusing with the magic essence.

If it made any move, Su Ran could react quickly.

However, the Earth Fire leader seemed to have no intention of continuing to pursue her.

It stopped in place, digesting the fused magic essence and flesh.

The other Earth Fire Lizards, which had shown clear offensive intentions, only raised their claws, posing as if they wanted to attack.

In reality, none of them showed any signs of leaving their original spot.

Although Su Ran was a bit strange about the current encounter, why would the Earth Fire Lizards let go of her, who had killed their kin?

But this situation, which didn’t require her to spend magic essence on fighting, was the scene she most wanted to see at this moment.

After confirming that the Earth Fire Lizards had no intention of pursuing her, Su Ran slowly retreated.

After retreating to a position where she could no longer see the Earth Fire Lizards, she turned and ran towards the habitat’s entrance.

More than an hour had passed since the discovery of the abnormal behavior of the magical beast population.

She believed that the habitat was also well-prepared.

The rest of the matter had nothing to do with her, Su Ran.

After coming down the mountain, she could exchange the magic crystals for money and go back to her dormitory for a good sleep.

However, the life Su Ran had imagined did not arrive as scheduled.

Just as she was halfway down the mountain…

Su Ran suddenly understood why the Earth Fire leader had stayed behind to fuse with the magic essence.

Guo Zixiang appeared before her with a bitter face.

Dozens of Sequence Two Earth Fire Liz Lizards stood intertwined, staring at Guo Zixiang.

They chose to surround but not attack, surely having received an order from the Earth Fire leader.

“We were about to go down the mountain when they appeared from the surroundings and surrounded us.”

Seeing Su Ran appear, Guo Zixiang quickly stepped forward to explain.

“I originally thought I was done for here, but they didn’t attack. They drove me back here. Seeing that they weren’t attacking people, I placed Liang Bo under the shade of the trees.”

As he spoke, he pointed to a shady spot.

Guo Zixiang, who couldn’t defeat the Earth Fire Lizards, had not given up on finding an opportunity to break through.

To prevent the fire-poisoned Liang Bo from sunbathing with him, he had placed the unconscious Liang Bo in the shade of the trees.

Su Ran weighed the distance from this position to the entrance and how many times she would need to use her special icicles.

This batch of Earth Fire Lizards were individuals that had appeared later.

Unlike the few Sequence Two lizards from before, which bore the marks of time, each one of these now had a mixed scent of flesh, blood, and magic essence.

It was possible that the Earth Fire leader had distributed the magic essence it couldn’t fuse with to them, which had led to the appearance of these Sequence Two Earth Fire Lizards.

The effect of the special icicles was limited.

Against a Sequence Two Earth Fire Lizard, it could at most restrict its movements.

To kill it would require much more magic essence.

‘Let’s take a gamble!’

Looking at the Earth Fire Lizards that were not actively attacking, Su Ran… until the magic essence deep in her heart…

She sat down and felt the magic essence in the habitat.

“If the Earth Fire Lizards show any intention of attacking, throw this thing out and then wake me up.”

As Su Ran spoke, she handed a pre-prepared special icicle to Guo Zixiang.

With this thing, even if Guo Zixiang was no match for the Earth Fire Lizards, he could still buy Su Ran some time to react.

Since the path ahead was blocked by the Earth Fire Lizards, Su Ran decided to break through to Sequence Two on the spot.

If she succeeded, as long as the Earth Fire leader behind her hadn’t truly entered Sequence Three, then she would still have a fighting chance.

Closing her eyes, Su Ran immersed her consciousness in communicating with the magic essence.

In this state, she felt a ball of fire burning not far away.

The surrounding magic essence was being siphoned towards it.

‘Does this ball of magic essence represent the Earth Fire leader?’

If anything could match it, then Su Ran believed that the Earth Fire leader was the only option.

Su Ran could feel that when it had siphoned enough magic essence, it would begin to attempt to compress it into a liquid state.

As long as it successfully compressed a single drop of liquid magic essence, then the Earth Fire leader would become a genuine Sequence Three.

‘Is the race against time actually becoming a tangible thing now?’

Thinking of this, Su Ran suddenly smiled.

When it came to siphoning magic essence, she, who possessed the Witch’s Meditation Technique, had never been afraid of anyone!

Su Ran let go of her thoughts and fully operated the Witch’s Meditation Technique, forming a tug-of-war with the distant flame.

The Earth Dragon leader, which had been enjoying all the magic essence in the habitat exclusively, immediately noticed that someone was competing with it for the magic essence in the area the moment Su Ran released her restrictions, and it flew into a rage.

However, at this critical moment of compressing its magic essence, it was completely engrossed in absorbing magic essence and couldn’t move freely, not even being able to issue commands.

If it were any other time, it would only need to issue a single command to have its subordinates tear the little bug that was competing with it for magic essence into pieces.

Now, the magic essence in the habitat was like the rope in a tug-of-war, with its two ends held by Su Ran and the Earth Fire leader respectively.

Whoever won this competition and pulled more of the rope in their direction…

The force with which the two of them were pulling the magic essence was so great that even Guo Zixiang, who was not in a state of meditation, could clearly feel it.

Gradually, the Earth Fire leader faintly realized that it was no match for Su Ran.

No matter how it attracted the magic essence, the magic essence would still run in Su Ran’s direction.

In order to win the final victory, it could only use that thing.

The moment it used the object, that familiar feeling appeared in Su Ran’s heart again.

This time, she had time to properly think about the source of this familiar feeling.

And in the next moment, the pull on the magic essence from the Earth Fire leader’s direction was constantly increasing.

It was slightly inferior to Su Ran, who possessed the Witch’s Meditation Technique, but it had a large amount of magic essence as a foundation.

Overall, the amount of magic essence it was drawing away was on par with Su Ran’s.

This situation was not too good for Su Ran.

However, Su Ran was now concerned about another problem.

From the aura emanating from the Earth Fire leader’s body, Su Ran already remembered.

This was the black mist that was emitted by the Devour skill she had used.

But why was it now appearing on the Earth Fire leader’s body?